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“Yellow Spider”
Musically, the track starts with the guitar ringing out, transitioning from “Wolf Am I (And Shadow)”. This is the first of the spider trilogy. In an interview with Lambgoat, Aaron states that the spider trilogy was originally one song but Mike Almquist suggested they split into three songs. This allowed them to switch up the…
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“Wolf Am I (And Shadow)”
According to Mike Almquist (the band’s manager), this is a song Rickie (the drummer) wrote and brought to the band. It is not surprising as this song is a great drum song. That opening drum beat that gets repeated is so great. I love the tom hits at the ends of the first halves of…
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“The Dryness And The Rain”
In this song, we are treated to a microcosm of mewithoutYou’s unique blend of Judaic, Christian, and Islamic imagery. Musically, we have the main driving guitar groove in the verses with a shimmery guitar over the top. We also have massive choruses featuring guest vocals by Jeremy Enigk of Sunny Day Real Estate and the…
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“Messes of Men”
Musically, the song starts with rain and a keyboard before the vocals enter with one cymbal. The instrumentation then includes an acoustic guitar in either ear and an electric guitar in either ear. The electric guitars drop out for “to an anchor ever-dropped”, but come back in with accordion and chimes after that glorious drum…
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Hell, Etc. Part 2: Clarifications
I wanted to revisit some items I touched on in the last post in more detail.
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Hell, Etc.
Why not start here? I was raised Catholic in a small community of mostly Catholics. Just like anybody who was raised in a specific way and in a specific place, my background skewed my perception in certain ways. I had a classic problem: the things I had been taught about God didn’t square with my…
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